Futures

Beijing’s decision on Friday to exempt pork from additional tariffs on U.S. goods follows a spike in China’s pork prices, as the nation continues to struggle with the decimation of its hog population that continues to suffer from African swine fever.
10:08 a.m. Sept. 14, 2019

Oil futures finish lower on Friday, with both U.S. and international benchmark crude posting sizable weekly falls as worries about the prospect of rising inventories appeared to overshadow a U.S.-China tariff detente.
3:15 p.m. Sept. 13, 2019

Emerging markets have beefed up gold holdings, undeterred by prices near their highest levels in more than six years, as countries such as Russia and China diversify their foreign-exchange reserves—a trend that is likely to continue.
1:48 p.m. Sept. 13, 2019

Oil futures finish with a loss on Thursday as OPEC and its allies reiterated their commitment to current output cuts, but failed to announce bigger production cuts as some had expected in the wake of easing tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
3:43 p.m. Sept. 12, 2019

The chances of a deeper oil production cut by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies has seen an uptick in just the last couple of days, as the group known as OPEC+ readies for meeting on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress in Abu Dhabi.
3:55 p.m. Sept. 11, 2019

Oil futures decline on Wednesday, settling at their lowest in about a week, after a report that President Donald Trump is considering easing sanctions on Iran raised the possibility of the return of the country’s crude to the world market. A weaker demand outlook from OPEC fed the price decline, despite U.S. government data showing a fourth straight weekly fall in domestic crude supplies.
3:06 p.m. Sept. 11, 2019

Oil futures end lower Tuesday, as traders bet that the departure of U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton will ease tensions with Iran. The EIA also significantly cut its forecasts for U.S. and global benchmark crude prices in a monthly report, contributing to oil’s losses.
3:05 p.m. Sept. 10, 2019

Gold futures settle lower on Monday, giving back earlier gains to extend their losses to a third session in a row as a rise in Treasury yields and some strength in global stock markets weighed on the precious metal’s haven appeal.
3:37 p.m. Sept. 9, 2019

Saudi Arabia appointed a new energy minister over the weekend, and the oil market appears to be welcoming Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman with open arms, touting King Salman’s son as an energy ministry veteran who is likely to remain committed to production cuts.
1:59 p.m. Sept. 9, 2019

Oil prices reverse course to finish higher on Friday, buoyed by a third-weekly decline in the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil. The data, along with a government report issued a day earlier also showing a third week of falling domestic crude supplies, helped calm trade war-related worries about demand.
3:03 p.m. Sept. 6, 2019

U.S. benchmark oil has outperformed the global benchmark this year, leading prices in recent weeks to the narrowest spread in more than a year. Analysts say the move isn’t about the trade war.
12:22 p.m. Sept. 6, 2019

A rally in oil futures fades by the end of Thursday’s trading session, prompting U.S. prices to erase nearly all of their earlier gains as plans for U.S.-China trade talks failed to fully calm nervousness over the outlook for the global economy.
3:37 p.m. Sept. 5, 2019

Gold prices drop Thursday, suffering their largest one-day dollar loss in almost three years, as news that the U.S. and China agreed to another round of trade talks next month dulled the precious metal’s haven appeal.
2:10 p.m. Sept. 5, 2019

Gold futures rally Tuesday as a contraction in August U.S. manufacturing, trade-related tensions, global growth concerns and the threat of a disorderly exit by Britain from the European Union drew investors to the haven metal.
2:16 p.m. Sept. 3, 2019

U.S. oil futures head sharply lower Tuesday as an increase in tariffs, which took hold this weekend, heightened worries about a global recession — a bearish factor for global crude appetite.
10:00 a.m. Sept. 3, 2019

Oil futures settled sharply lower Friday, contributing to a loss for the month, after reports that Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Russia’s oil output cuts in August will be slightly smaller those agreed to under the deal between OPEC and non-OPEC producers.
3:17 p.m. Aug. 30, 2019

Precious metals scored impressive gains in August, with gold logging a fourth consecutive monthly rise and silver steadily outpacing the price climb of its sister metal. Both have plenty of reasons to move even higher in the weeks to come.
2:46 p.m. Aug. 30, 2019

Commodities will end August with a second straight monthly loss, as uncertainty surrounding the U.S.-China trade war feeds expectations of a global economic slowdown—and demand for raw materials.
1:22 p.m. Aug. 30, 2019

Oil futures build on gains a day after data showed a large drop in domestic inventories, with U.S. prices settling at their highest in over two weeks, while softer rhetoric from Beijing helped ease fears of an escalating trade war.
3:42 p.m. Aug. 29, 2019

Natural-gas prices settle at their highest level in more than five weeks Thursday as Hurricane Dorian, which poses no big threat to energy production in the Gulf of Mexico, serves as a wake-up call that the worst of Atlantic hurricane season may be yet to come.
3:09 p.m. Aug. 29, 2019

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